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A crackdown on migrants accessing free health services is rapidly unravelling as it was criticised by doctors and ministers were unable to provide details of how it would work.
The Prime Minister David Cameron announced earlier this year that migrants would have their access to the health service restricted to try to dissuade foreigners from coming to live here.
However it emerged that the changes ? which formed the centrepiece of the Queen?s speech - were only likely to affect certain parts of the health service, and would not stop migrants being treated in accident and emergency units.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt was unable to say how the changes would work while Downing Street sources said they were unlikely to be law until the middle of next year because of a long official consultation period.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...ss-to-NHS-will-not-be-law-until-mid-2014.html
I sense another shambles approaching... 😱
The Prime Minister David Cameron announced earlier this year that migrants would have their access to the health service restricted to try to dissuade foreigners from coming to live here.
However it emerged that the changes ? which formed the centrepiece of the Queen?s speech - were only likely to affect certain parts of the health service, and would not stop migrants being treated in accident and emergency units.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt was unable to say how the changes would work while Downing Street sources said they were unlikely to be law until the middle of next year because of a long official consultation period.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...ss-to-NHS-will-not-be-law-until-mid-2014.html
I sense another shambles approaching... 😱